Flight 5 Starship Rolled Out and Ready to Test | SpaceX Boca Chica
Ship 30 was rolled out to Pad B for engine testing, Booster 13 returned from Massey's after completing proof testing there, and work around the launch site to prepare for flight 4 continued.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Two Point Lifter Moved to Ship 30
0:17 Parking Garage Construction
0:25 Tile Work on Ship 29
0:51 Ship 30 Lifted
1:09 Ship 30 Unhooked From Crane
1:17 Ship 30 Rolls to the Launch Site
2:14 Ship 30 Hooked to Crane
2:21 Ship 30 Lifted Onto Pad B
2:38 Ship 30 on Pad B
2:51 Ship 30’s FTS Box
3:04 Rebar Installed in New Pad Area
3:24 The OLM and Chopsticks
3:32 Work Continues on the Chopsticks
3:47 Ship 30 on Pad B
3:54 The New Office Building
4:07 The Production Site
4:16 Parking Garage Construction
4:28 Ship Quick Disconnect at Massey’s
4:42 Booster 13
5:13 Booster 13 Returns From Massey’s
6:03 Tower Sections Eight and Nine
6:11 The Rocket Garden
6:19 Ship 29 in the High Bay
6:27 Glass Installed on Starfactory
6:54 Edome and Nosecone Header Tank
7:02 Falcon Doing Tricks?
8:06 The OLM and Chopsticks
8:13 Bumpers Installed
8:22 Work on the Tank Farm
8:42 Cut Line on GSEC-7 Shell
8:51 Ground Work for the Second Pad
8:59 “Gateway to Mars” Wall Demolition
9:06 Ship QD Arm Retraction Test
9:14 Booster 13 in the Mega Bay
9:22 Ship Aft Dome Moved
9:44 Scrap Barrel Moved
10:09 Parking Garage Parts Delivered
10:16 Parking Garage Construction
10:36 Starfactory Construction
10:44 Ship 30 on Pad B
10:58 Groundwork for the Second Pad
11:32 Plate Installed on Starhopper’s Leg
7:30 Bird mitigation. This is common practice at functioning airports. Predators will make the local bird population avoid your construction zone and landing/launching sites. Good for the birds and good for the function of your airspace. One falcon won't put a dent in the population but it will keep them away by a zone around the space.
Birds are not a problem. These rockets don't have fans that birds can harm. As long as vents are covered birds are just fine.
@@knowledgeisgood9645 Bird mitigation is also used for keeping nesting birds off tall structures. SpaceX do have a lot of tall structures, that they probably don't want birds nests and bird droppings on.
@@knowledgeisgood9645I think he meant it’s good for the birds, not the rockets lol.
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ahh boyds.... they could just put a plastic representation of a wood owl up that slightly moves in the wind, would scare the bejusus out of all the other boyds but... live falcons are much funner :)
7:22 this amazing bird is used to help stop other birds nesting. A lot of airports use them.
Jack, love the Starship chase down hwy4
Another great SpaceX Starbase Update, Thank you NSF. Thank you Mary, Jack, Sean, & NSF for the great videos!!!
They really working an and possible thing you can think off!!thats crazy🤯nice Job Nsf
Falcon doing tricks?! Never seen that before, love it!
That is a busy place! Thanks for the video teamwork to keep us informed ❤️🚀🚀
Starbase looks a lot different than it did a few years ago. New Megabays, Starfactory, parking garage, new office building, and the second launch pad all being built so quickly
Must be v satisying working at Starbase with so much bldg and development taking place as well as part of the team testing/launching new rockets into Space !
I hope Starhopper is going to be OK. Thanks for your work NSF.
They 'could' be preparing to move StarHopper but you know it can move itself, we've seen it.
That's the coolest stuff ever watching a massive spacecraft roll down the highway heading to work 😁
Great shot of the falcon!
Beautiful. Sounds like something we haven't heard before. Launch sounds next: starts at gnition and goes on and on
Starship catching. My suggestion is, would it be a good idea to pick up the starship loaded with the landing fuels lifted to the tower's maximum height? Then start the landing engines while held by the arms, then when the hover has stabilised, release the arms, hover around a little and recatch with the arms and recovery?
I thought a tethered hover would be a good idea.
0:42 Так і хочеться гукнути цьому мужику: "Густіше! Густіше клей намазуй! Щоб не відпадало як минулого разу!" Вітання з України! ✌🇺🇦
And greetings back to you! I hope my country (USA) increases its support for the brave UA fighters with more systems and support materiel.
Cool, it's bring your Raptor to work day!
Is the falcon for keeping the high bays clear of birds? Plastic owls probably not doing their job right.
That’s what I was thinking as well. As often as the doors are open, it’s not just the outside areas you want bird control of: you especially want to the inside of those big bays controlled.
Elon heard that the plastic owls were planning on unionizing...
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Thanks NSF team!
Very cool update thanks NSF team and especially Mary🌻 Jack and Sean . Trained birds have been used in the past to deter other birds from area's like airports and sports stadiums. Just having them fly in the area regularly seems to work.
9:20 Whoo!...... whoo! whoo! lol
Flying Falcons in an area like that helps stop birds nesting nearby, this can be a concern if they are a protected species as you then have to stop work until the chicks have fledged. Far easier to persuade them not to nest nearby in the first place as well as there being less debris / mess to clear up.
The rockets, namesake!
That look of total concentration in those eyes. The slightest movement on the controls, but still had time to turn on smoke.
Hello to all the teams 😉👋👌🤘
The star factory is looking so good
Awesome!
Excelente
I think it would be great to hop a booster from the launchpad into the catching arms. If the booster can hop, not even clearing the tower, and maneuver itself to the catching arms and have the catching arms grab it and put it back on the olm I imagine that such a test would give a lot of valuable data on catching the booster. Whereas if it would go wrong there is valuable lessons to be learned there too. If they can successfully hop the booster multiple times catching it after a full flight would mostly be an exercise of avionics or balistics which is by no means easy but it would make the odds of success a whole lot better if you already knew the hover and the arms would work.
Flight 5, and I feel like I've either missed an inside joke, or been asleep for a few months.
GO SPACE X STAY POSITIVE GO SPACE X & the shotwell A team You got dis .cross your Tz an stay sharp. GO SPACE X
Convoy camera 🤯
Everything on progress
That parking garage is growing so fast
One the Parking Garage is finished could SpaceX is the area in front of the build site wide enough to make it another road to run the equipment along and not block the road so much ?
That's nice but wenlaunch?
Rocket go 💣💣💣💥💥💥💥
The original "reusable" Falcon!
Falcons are sometimes used to "shoot down" unauthorized drones. Have there been problems in that regard lately?
is there no border control on the river?
Launch date yet? I might need to call off work! 😂
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is the sqd retraction realtime?
It seems that the launch mission in the first half of 2024 is very busy.
The Falcon is for bird control, just like at an airport
those tests are supposed to happen at massey's(?) in future, yes?
Ships static fire plus all cryogenic testing.
Yeah; I’m thinking that’s probably going to be the last ship tested at that test stand.
thx u two
Anyone know what happened to the RGV crew?
Thank you for all the hard work in making these excellent videos. I think the only time I use imperial measurements now is when I read Harry Potter talk to Americans or speak to old people.
If you were an engineer, you'd use them exclusively.
@@jamesdrew1168 good luck with that....
@BusstterNutt Not sure what your message here is. I've been an aerospace engineer for 35 years now, and we all, always, use inches and pounds. Everywhere I've ever worked, Lockheed, P&W, Sierra Nevada, ULA, you name it. Always. It's just a fact.
will forget the probe that smashed into Mars because somebody couldn't translate from from old money into new money ......the tower of Babel all over again!
@@jamesdrew1168 I realise that all your experience may have been in America but there is a big world out there.... suppose because I worked on Capital projects like atomic power stations or refineries With US engineering firms like Badger and Fleur specified infrastructure projects regulations were strictly adhered to
looks like a Peregrin Falcon
How many tower sections are there all together?
Nine total sections, but 8 and 9 together are the same height as sections 1-7. So you can think of 8 and 9 as 8a and 8b which they were called at one point
@@thomashayden804 thanks
I speculate that the falcon is to scare away other birds in the area
9:16 looks like a skull
The falcon is there to scare away the other black birds that where always visible on the site
are you suggesting we ditch the actual production numbers of ships and boosters and just adress them by flightnumbers?
They use hawks inside big factories to get rid of birds that poop on everything
So only hawks are allowed to poop inside those buildings. Besides humans. Now if we can only train them on how to use the restrooms.
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Warp speed please 😂
Prays it goes well
IF ONLY WE COULD WORK THAT QUICK WE COULD PUT ROBOTS IN THEIR PLACE HE - HE - HE
To my mind, SpaceX is the only US business that works at Chinese-speed.
blastification nation
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Sure?
7:04 . . . Raptors (almost any kind) could be used for pigeon or other pesky bird roosting prevention / population control . . . kinda like a "killer drone" ? 🐦🎯
It would be nice if it could be done quicker like the speed of the video.
Nothing will slow down work as much as an accident. No one wants those.
GO SPA E X GO A TEAM GO ELON MUSK & AUNT QWENTH SHOTWELL WAY TO GIT ARE EAGLE ON AN STAYING SHARP ,POSITIVE &FOCUSED... WE LO E ANN THANK YOU. WE.,ARE THE WORLD.
Any thing goes bird man maybe the pig man no stop signs red lights starting to look like a ringer barbanman circus oyea cow boy hard hats sorry but no osha required
In my opinion, I think the reason for the haste is the chosen need to get off this planet, and fast. We all know that's coming, Elon will make sure the human race survives.
I have your tin-foil spacesuit ready for your ascension...
Falcon is to run off pigeons and other birds and it is the Rocket mascot 😁
Hello to all the teams thank you for this very good summary very good day everyone good morning from (Brittany Finistère France)😉👌🤘👋